Directly from the horses mouth - Scott Guthrie (again) brings good news to us. The ASP.Net AJAX Control Toolkit sent out an update last week. Here's what Scott had to say about the release.
ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit Update Released
In other ASP.NET AJAX news, the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit team last week shipped an update to the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (which is a free, shared source library, containing 34+ ASP.NET AJAX Controls that are built by both Microsoft and non-Microsoft developers). This ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit update contains a bunch of great new updates:
- JavaScript comment/whitespace stripping - When compiled in "Release" mode, all of the JavaScript files in the Toolkit now automatically have all comments and unnecessary whitespace removed. This can reduce the download size of the scripts by over 50%. This is implemented as an automated MSBuild task that you can take and use within your own ASP.NET AJAX projects to streamline your custom JavaScript sizes as well (I'll blog about how to use the MSBuild task in the next few days).
- Localization support - The Toolkit now has an infrastructure for localizing the text in JavaScript files using the standard ASP.NET AJAX support for resource files. There are placeholder files for the following 14 languages: Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional).
- ASP.NET Theme/Skin support - You can now use ASP.NET's theme/skin support to specify properties for Toolkit controls across an entire web site in one central location.
You can try out and download the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit online here.
Regards
Brian H. Madsen - CSharpZealot
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